Brick-burner



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BRICK BURNER.

(No Model.)

Patented Apr. 13, 1886.

INVENTOR a I V ATTORNEYS.

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BRICK BURNER.

No. 339,963. Patented Apr. 13, 1886 WITNESSES: 1 5 INVENTOR:

@JM I BY M9 ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BERNHARD ALBERS, OF CONCEPTION, MISSOURI.

BRICK-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,963, dated April13, 1886.

Application filed December-28,1885. Serial No. 186,877.

I 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BERNHARD ALBERS, of Conception, in the county of Nodaway and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Brick-Burner, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to burn brick in the shortest time, with the least expense, and the least labor, and the invention consists of furnaces having interchangeable grates, the furnaces being arranged in pairs, each pair being connected by an arch in which there is a flue, said fine being centrally divided by a solid abutment or partition.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side View of the burner, certain parts being shown in section to disclose the interior construction. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan View of the burner. Fig. 3 is an end view, shown partly in section, the View being taken on line as m of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan View of a number of kilns arranged in series and provided with my improved burner.

Referring now to Figs. 1 and 2, A repre sents the kiln to which my burner is to be applied. B B and O G are the furnaces of the improved burner, each pair of furnaces being connected by an arch, (t, in which there is a longitudinal flue, D. The burners are pro vided with grates E, all of which are of the same size, and as the furnaces are identical in construction the grates may be used interchangeably. The flues D are centrally divided by a partition, E. Transverse fines e e are formed in the body of the kiln, these fines being about two feet from center to center, and being about five by six inches in size.

In building the flues e the brick must be cornered-that is, placed 'on their edges and must start from the edge of the casing. These cornered brick may be covered by either burned or green brick, and in covering the flues the brick will be laid fiat with a space of threeqnarters of an inch between them. The fines e are connected with the flues D by necks d, that are made of common burned brick, theflues in these necks being five by nine inches at their junction with the main flues D, but gradually diminishing until they are only five by six inches where (N0 model.)

they connect with the flues on the under side of the kiln. In these necks there are openings i, in which there are arranged sliding partitions f, which may be raised to open the flues in the necks. These partitions may be made of Russian tin or any other fireproof metal, or from common brick, the idea of the partitions being to regulate the amount of heat delivered through the fines in the necks b, or in some cases to shut off the heat entirely.

In Fig. 4 I have shown an arrangement whereby a number of kilns arrranged in series are operated upon by my improved burner. These kilns, which are precisely similar to the ones shown in Fig. 2, I shall designate by the letters R, S, and T, while the furnaces shown in connection therewith will be designated by the numerals from 1 to S. WVith this arrangement of kilns, each kiln being supposed to hold three hundred thousand brick, I may build up kiln S and start the fires in furnaces 2, 3, 6, and 7, and while these furnaces are burning, the fires at this time being led in through kiln S alone, I may build up another kiln, R, or kiln T, it being understood that at this time there are grates in furnaces 2, 3, 6, and 7. If, now, I have built up kiln R, I may take the grates from the furnaces 3 and 7 and put them in the furnaces 1 and 5, continuing the fire in the furnaces 2 and 6. It will thus be seen that with a single set of four grates any number of kilns could be successively burned.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. A brick-burner provided with furnaces arranged in pairs, each pair being connected by an arch in which there'is a flue, the said flue being centrally divided by a partition, and side flues leading from the main line to the kiln, substantially as described.-

2. In abrick-bnrner, the combination, with furnaces B B O O, of dues D, divided by partitions E, the said furnaces being provided with interchangeable grates E, and flues d d, leading in from the main flues to the interior of the kiln, said fines (Z being provided with sliding partitions f, substantially as described.

W'itnesses: BERNHARD ALBERS.

IYIATH. ELM, A. A. MAILLIARD. 

